Twitter Stats: 13 June

It has been a non sitting week this week, so it is too be expected that MPs will be a bit less active on Twitter. This is the case, apart from the high profile users, who are still pretty active. It is still the usual people in the top 3 for all the parties.

The thing that doesn’t show up in these stats is that despite gaining 120 followers this week, David Cunliffe followed 140 new accounts. I am not able to tell which came first, David followed them and they followed back, or the other way around. But this is a trend that has been cropping up for a number of weeks. Nikki Kaye fell into the same category this week as well. So it is not limited to just David Cunliffe.

John Banks, in his last week as an MP, made a surprise appearance, gaining 17 new followers.

National still have a rather high rate of MPs who are on Twitter, but are not actively tweeting week to week.

Once again the Internet Party leads the other parties by a massive amount, by more than double in all categories. They are still in the same ball park of followers as Labour, and still trail the Greens significantly. Though the odd stand out is the Maori Party who make it into the top 3 for most tweets favourited. So someone is actively using their account, they just aren’t really tweeting from it.

We have a new category this week, the Press Gallery. I have culled out a number of member who are on Twitter, but are not active. This has left 28 members. This weeks most active member on Twitter was Jessica Williams from RadioLive. Though she has had an unusually active week. He daily average this week is just shy of double her normally daily average, gathered via twitonomy. So do not take this weeks details as indicative of how things will pan out in the future.